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Transport Truck Driver Charged After Ditching Truck

(KINLOSS TWP, ON) – On May 17, 2021 at 10:07 p.m., the South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OP) received a report of a single vehicle collision involving a transport truck along South Kinloss Avenue in Kinloss Township. Officers responded with members of the Ripley-Huron Fire Department and Bruce County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to find a transport truck had rolled onto its side before coming to rest in the ditch.

The driver, a 58-year-old resident of Georgian Bluffs, was taken to a local hospital for assessment of non-life threatening injuries.

South Kinloss Avenue was closed from Huron-Kinloss Townline to Button Street for the protection of first responders. It has since re-opened to traffic.

As a result of the police investigation, the driver was charged with Careless Driving.

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